German Pilots Mocked the P-38 Lightning — Until It Dominated the Sky
Автор: TimeMachine | WW2 Stories & Military History
Загружено: 2025-11-14
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The Luftwaffe thought the P-38 Lightning was a joke.
Too big. Too heavy. Too strange to survive in a real dogfight.
But three months after its debut in Europe, German pilots discovered the truth:
the P-38 wasn’t a mistake.
It was a high-altitude predator built to dominate the sky.
From the cold air above Germany to the jungles of the Pacific, the Lightning became one of the most feared American fighters of World War II. It could climb higher, dive faster, and strike harder than anything the Luftwaffe had. And in 1943, it carried out one of the most precise missions in aviation history: the interception of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto.
This is the full story of how the “Fork-Tailed Devil” went from being mocked…
to becoming a nightmare for every pilot who underestimated it.
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